I’m so delighted and amazed that Unsettled Ground has won the Costa Novel Award 2021. It means a huge amount that Jeanie’s and Julius’s story will be more widely read, and it’s simply a wonderful privilege for the book to be chosen from so many entered and of course the brilliant shortlist. More information about the awards can be found here.
Unsettled Ground is about fifty-one year old twins, Jeanie and Julius who still live with their mother, Dot in rural isolation and poverty in the English countryside. When Dot dies, these adult children have navigate the real world for the first time. The novel has lots of themes: what home is, how the countryside is not always what it seems, how we all need friends, homelessness, and family lies. It makes a great book club book, and if you’d like to choose it for your book club, you can request book club questions here, to help get the discussion started.
So thrilled for you Claire. I’ve loved all your books.
Thanks so much, Linda x
Congratulations so pleased I loved this book. Been a fan of your books since the first and so lovely to meet you when you visited our book club in Frinton several years ago.
Hi Susie – I remember! And thank you, Claire x
Fantastic! Congratulations, Claire. Well deserved 🙂
Thanks, Dale!
Many congratulations, Claire! So delighted to see this on Twitter yesterday evening
Thanks, Susan.
Congratulations Claire! This is wonderful news, and you very much deserved it!! Unsettled Ground is a wonderful novel – just as ALL your books have been. I’m so happy for you!! Bask in the glow! 🙂
Thank you so much, Jodi.
Congratulations, Claire! So impressed!
Thank you!
Brilliant news Claire, so pleased for you, and well-deserved.
Thanks so much, Chris. Are you still in touch with Emma and Dallas? I’ve lost touch since the DEP changed, and it would be nice to reconnect. Claire x
Sorry Claire, think you are mistaking me for somebody else! I met you at at U3A meeting in Purbeck a few years ago. Love all your books.
Ah, sorry about that. A different Chris!